Life (TV series)

Charlie Crews: [to Dani Reese] Dog must've took the bullet for the kid, then took the shooter's finger off. Anyone ever love you that much?

Dani Reese: No threats against his family?

Correctional Officer #2: Not that we know, but we just work here. We go home after our shifts. It's the convicts who are here 24/7, they know what really goes on.

Charlie Crews: He means inmates.

Corrections Officer #1: He means convicts.

Correctional Officer #2: What, you don't like that word? What do you care?

[Charlie turns to face the guard]

Dani Reese: Come on Crews, let's go.

Correctional Officer #2: Yeah, we know who you are. Know you did your 12 years. Maybe you were innocent. Maybe not. It don't make no difference to us, because we know what you did to that correction officer in Pelican Bay. That makes you a con. Don't it?

Dani Reese: You two need to escort us out now.

Corrections Officer #1: You gettin' angry, convict?

Charlie Crews: [calmly] Anger ruins joy. Steals the goodness of my mind. Forces my mouth to say terrible things. Overcoming anger brings peace of mind. Leads to a mind without regrets. If I overcome anger, I will be delightful and loved by everyone.

Correctional Officer #2: Are you making fun of us?

Charlie Crews: It is the universe that makes fun of us all.

[turns and faces other guard, walks away. Reese gives them both a dirty look]

[as they walk outside the prison]

Reese: Why would the universe make fun of us all?

Crews: Maybe it's insecure.

Bobby Stark: Hey, can I get a picture, you know, on account of you being a celebrity detective and all. [takes his cell phone out, hands it to his partner, Juarez]

Crews: That's a phone, Bobby.

Juarez: It's got a camera in it, where you been?

Crews: I've been in federal maximum security prison!

Reese: I need a drink.

Crews: I know something better. [holding out a cup] Mango?

Reese: [shaking her head] That's okay.

Crews: These came all the way from Guatamala, and now they're right here in this cup. It's all connected, Reese.

Reese: What is?

Crews: It is.

Reese: Mm, that's Zen.

Crews: Is it?

Reese: That's Zen too, isn't it...

Crews: Is it?

Reese: Say "Is it?" one more time and I'll shoot you.

Charlie Crews: [reading the book 'Internet for Idiots'] IM stands for Instant Message.

Dani Reese: I know that.

Crews: You can't trace an IM.

Reese: Detective, I know that, too.

Dani Reese: I don't exactly understand you.

Charlie Crews: You don't have to understand here to be here.

Reese: That's what I don't understand.

Charlie Crews: Do you think that no one will ever understand what we did? What you and I came through? Do you ever think that the world is now you and me in one place, everyone else in another?

Charlie Crews: I have no expectations as to what you will or will not believe, but whatever you do believe can't change what was in that shoe.

Reese: Why exactly can't you talk like a normal person?

Crews: When exactly was the last time you met a normal person?

Crews: Stun baton?

Reese: Nine hundred thousand volts.

Crews: Felt like more.

Crews: [laying out all of the wedding photos] It's all here... except the one thing that isn't here...

Reese: [to nearby officer] Do you know what that means? [to everyone] Does anybody know what that means?

Reese: I need to know if this is gonna be a thing with you.

Crews: Which "this" is that?

Reese: This thing with Jake Silvers. Are you gonna go see falsely accused people everywhere?

Crews: You think that's not a good instinct for a cop to have?

Reese: I just need to know if it's going to be a thing with you.

Crews: Shouldn't "innocent until proven guilty" be a thing with all of us?

Crews: It was a near-death experience.

Reese: And it not being a full-death experience should make you happy.

Crews: Nothing happened. There were no lights, no tunnel, no dead relatives. Well, maybe it wasn't near death enough for it to be a near death experience.

Lt. Karen Davis: You looked into his eyes.

Crews: They are the windows to the soul.

Reese: That's very, uh, what's the word, Crews?

Crews: Enlightened.

Zen Recording: [voiceover] Revenge is a poison meant for others that we end up swallowing ourselves. Vengeance is a dark light that blinds all who seek it. The untroubled soul knows there is no justice in revenge. The untroubled soul knows that to seek vengeance is to seek destruction.

Crews: Someone with a gun. Look, I admire a question answered with a question, I do, because there is no answer only questions. But I'd like you to try really hard to give us an answer anyway.

[talking about a car]

Charlie Crews: Does it have GPS?

Maldito: You don't want that. The man track you like a dog with GPS.

Lackey: Like a dog.

Crews: Yeah, yeah, you're right I don't want that, the man will track me with that.

Reese: Crews, you are the man.

Crews: Oh yes. Yeah, right, I am the man.

[After Crews gets into a knife fight with an escaping criminal]

Dani Reese: I want you to give me your knife.

Charlie Crews: My knife, why?

Reese: Because I want to swear a blood oath with you and I need something to cut my pinkie. Give me you knife or I burn you with IAD for not using your service weapon when you should have. [Crews is reluctant] I need to know my partner is a cop and not a con. [Crews gives her the knife] Anything else you carrying from the old days? Sharpened toothbrush, lightbulb full of bleach?

[About the husband of the murder victim]

Charlie Crews: We have to use his own strength against him.

Dani Reese: His strength, what's his strength?

Crews: His weakness.

Reese: His weakness is his strength?

Crews: Exactly, it's like the one-handed clap.

Reese: Are you really Zen?

Crews: I'm Zen-ish.

[Crews pulls over his ex-wife and her husband]

Jennifer Conover: What do you want, Charlie?

Charlie Crews: I want to be the unwobbling pivot at the center of an ever-revolving universe; I want to be still.

Jennifer Conover: What do you want here Charlie?

Charlie Crews: [pulls a photograph of Rachel from his jacket pocket] I want to know where she is.

Constance Griffiths: [drawing very close to him] You don't have the right to ask that. Unless you want that right. Do you, Charlie? [Charlie just looks at her] I was looking for you and I didn't even know it. And now you're here and I can't have you.

Crews: You're married.

Griffiths: And if I weren't?

Crews: You have a husband.

Griffiths: And I think about you when I'm with him. I need you to be all the way in. And if you can't be all the way in, then I need you all the way out.

Crews: You know I can't do this.

[talking to a person of interest in the interrogation room]

Crews: What were you trying to get away from?

Easley: If I say, can I go?

Reese: No.

Easley: Can I get a drink?

Reese: No! But if you confess we won't charge you for murder one, or for assaulting Detective Crews.

Crews: Or for stealing Detective Reese's pen.

[Reese searches for her pen, while Easley stands up, reaches in his pants and takes out the pen, handing it over to Dt. Reese]

[Reese holds her pen in front of Crews while walking]

Reese: Here! Take it! Everything that goes down his pants, you're going to keep.

Charlie Crews: Every moment you spend wishing you were someplace else is a moment you can't get back.

Dani Reese: What about every moment I wish you were someplace else?

Crews: You fall you hit the bottom. The bottom breaks, you fall some more. You get lost. And now I tell myself ... it is what it is, and I'm doing my best. I hope.

Dani Reese: Focus on the words I'm actually saying.

[Talking about a missing victim]

Crews: She's twenty-two years old. Aren't they all on MySpace, YourSpace, Facebook, Faceplace?

Reese: How do you know about that?

Crews: Everybody knows about that. Don't you want a whole bunch of new friends? Don't you want them to know where you are all the time?

Crews: You didn't die. You survived what happened to you. You lived through that and here you are. Did you ever think you could live through such a thing. There's real violence in the world Nancy. It never finds most people, it found you. But did you ever think you would have the strength to survive what he did to you? Thats your secret Nancy. Larson doesn't know it. Larson doesn't know how strong you are. Prison doesn't know how strong he made you.

Crews: You're right, Rick; Hate is a prison. But you know what? Prison is a prison too!

Dani Reese: You think you hit bottom, Rick? You have no idea how far down this goes, do you? You think you're bad, you think you got a demon inside of you? You don't even know what that means!

Crews: Hey! It's kind of like a party except, this is my house and I don't remember sending out invites.

IAD Agent: Detective Crews, in that you are a person of interest in the killing of Carl Ames the District Attorney's office has issued a search warrant for these premises, as well as the occupants therein.

Crews: My feelings toward Ames were the same as my feelings toward anyone.

Agent: And those would be?

Crews: That none of us are alone. That even as we exhale it is inhaled by others.

Agent: Is that some kind of joke?

Crews: Laughter is the best medicine. Reader's Digest. I had a subscription at Pelican Bay.

Reese: [to Crews] He was not looking for the person not obeying the law. He was looking for the person not not obeying the law. That kinda talk remind you of anyone?

Zen Recording: [voiceover] We are none of us alone. Even as we exhale it is inhaled by others. The light that shines upon me shines upon my neighbor as well. In this way everything is connected. Everything is connected to everything else. In this way I am connected to my friend even as I am connected to my enemy. In this way there is no difference between me and my friend. In this way there is no difference between me and my enemy. We are none of us alone.

Charlie Crews: I was being serious; why does nobody take me seriously?

Reese: Alright, I have to know... What's the deal with the fruit?

Crews: Do you know what you eat in prison?

Reese: Crap?

Crews: Crap... no fresh fruit... ever. I missed it.

Reese: I don't think it'll be fruit I'll be missing.

Crews: Yeah, you would.

Crews: [about his meeting with Reese's father] Do you want to know what he wanted?

Reese: He always wants the same thing.

Crews: Oh, yeah. What's that?

Reese: Everyone else's unhappiness.

Reese: [referring to a room with bars on the windows, locks on the doors] Can you imagine living like this?

Crews: Don't have to.

Reese: Yeah.

Crews: Because of the whole prison thing.

Reese: Copy that.

Crews: About your dad....

Reese: Yeah, let me make this easy on you: I spent my whole childhood trying to figure out if my dad was only mean or just plain bad. And you... I don't really understand you. I don't really like you but... you're not one of the bad guys. [Long pause] If I had your money I would be on a beach somewhere... How come you're not on a beach somewhere?

Professor Dujardin: Everything is in motion. And the particle's within everything are never in one place. Therefore, if it's never in one place, it never is, is it?

Crews: So I'm always in motion. I'm never in one place. I'm never here.

Dujardin: Just more likely to be here than not to be here.

Crews: I'm not here. You like that, don't you?

Reese: If only that were true.

Crews: See that car... not here. That building... not here. Not actually here, just more likely to be here than to not be here. That dog... not here. That girl... not here. Too bad about that. This street... this city... everything... not here.

Reese: If you're not here, how come I can still see you?

Crews: What would you come back as? Reincarnation. Don't limit yourself, you can choose an animal.

Reese: This one time should be plenty, thank you.

Crews: I'd like to come back as a giant Flemish rabbit. 15 pounds of pure bunny. Or a whale can you imagine being a whale, thousands of feet under water. Can you imagine that.

Reese: Is it quiet down there?

Crews: So everyone going to that Zen center was just completely screwed up. Right?

Reese: People go there seeking peace. People seek what they don't have. Only troubled people seek peace.

Zen recording: [voiceover] The Buddha was asked if he ever felt anger. "Of course," said the Buddha. The Buddha was asked if he ever felt the desire to strike another. "Of course," said the Buddha. "But if I am connected to all things," said the Buddha, "hurting another is hurting myself. And how does that better me?"

Zen recording: [voiceover] Chasing after the world brings only chaos. Allowing it to come to be brings only peace. Retreat from the world and it will pursue you. To exist, to allow the world to exist, all things at once, all things as one. This is the path to serenity, to balance, see yourself as part of the world.

Zen recording: [voiceover] The greatest mistake is to be continually fearful of making one. Stumble may prevent a fall. To say that we have made mistakes is to say that we are alive. When we cease to make mistakes that is the moment when we cease to be. The Buddha was once asked if he'd ever made a mistakes, he answered "I am making a mistake even now... Nothing more."

Doctor: Here you are. It's an unusual request, detective. Most people wouldn't want to have the bullet that shot them.

Crews: Well, someone gave it to me. It would be rude just to throw it away.

Zen recording: [voiceover] When I wish to forgive another, what do I mean? I mean I wish to forgive myself. When I wish to harm another, what do I mean? I mean I wish to harm myself. Close your eyes and think of the world as seen from space. From that distance it is calm, silent, at peace. One.

Crews: [holding up the bullet he has just melted down and re-cast] Calm, silent, at peace. One.

Crews: Most likely, these companies didn't do anything. Let's go find out who these companies didn't do anything to.

Reese: Who these companies didn't do anything to? Do you have to talk like that?

Crews: Like what? I don't think I talk differently than anyone else does. Maybe, sometimes, I don't not say things that other people don't not say, but most other people don't not say the same things I don't. You know what I'm saying?

[Charlie delivers a devastatingly fast chop to the throat, and watches Roman choke to death.]

Charlie Crews: Like that.

Zen recording: [voiceover] What we learned as children, that one plus one equals two, we know to be false. One plus one equals one. We even have a word for when you, plus another, equals one. That word is love.